TA MEN

The Chinese art is experiencing a rapid development at the time like no other. More and more Chinese artists gain overnight an international recognition and achieve it at Sotheby's auctions and Christie's fantastic prizes.

The artist duo TA MEN (in German "They") is one of the young rising stars of the "Art Nouveau Chinois", whose art is very popular in the West. The two artists with real name Lai Shengyu and Yang Xiaogong were born in 1978 in Hunan Province and received numerous awards even during their studies, which they finished at the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2004: among others the Excellence Award of the Nokia "Paradise of Imagination" art competition, the first prize of Okamatsu Family Art Funds, Japan, and the Gold Medal of Graduation Works Exhibition at the Centrals Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.